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@DrDave Thanks. Let me read and comeback.

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
>As for "force". Generally it never happened in history were crimes against countries were comitted openly but with full cover of mass media (not local, but worldwide) as another division of military. Well, I worry less about the overt…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
Do not mix the emotional impact of a tragic event like a government shooting down 100s of its own people when analyzing the reasons that created it. The killings are deplorable and excessive. There is no two way about it. If you are doubting my empa…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
All this boils down to where the money saved from scrapping of the subsidies go. If they can be put to better use to create employment and infrastructure or used in a better way for the whole of the society, then this period of difficulties will be …

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
Some interesting links. Of course IMF 'studies' need to be seen in perspective ;-) http://www.ewea.org/blog/2013/04/global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-amount-to-1-9-trillion-imf/ http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/fURzNfqkjNe4sJOamyeCFN/Who-benef…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
I never took an extreme position on subsidies. They help, especially when it encourages production (farmers who get less than fair price for their effort are often get subsidies for a reason) where as fuel price subsidies have been found to be count…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
OK show me one country where everything subsidized and is still going well and you would have managed to get rid of one person with an unintended ultra liberal pretensions. :-) Saying 'Subsidies solve the problems, they are not problem' i…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
Subsidies solve 'some' problems, not all. Subsidies create problems on their own too. If subsidies are so helpful, all that we need to do is to subsidize everything and all our problems will vanish. In reality there is no such thing as a f…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
My comments were not specific to Sudan alone. There are so many countries with deep problems on account of fuel subsidies (India, Indonesia etc.). The sudden rise of oil cost in the past few years have literally blown the governments out their reluc…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Back to Basics: Audio electronics tutorials
> @ DrDave >However it is missing one important detail, which is that a properly designed unbalanced circuit will outperform a balanced one. I would like to know more about this, but from the sound reproduction angle. I have recently been…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Bitdefender stops Ptool and errors when writing fast SANDISK card
While not related to PTool, whenever you need to try an application, you may try virtualisation technics. You may use Sandboxie to run the application sandboxed or even use Virtual Box or something similar to create a virtual OS. Overkill? Yes,…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Sudan: Same thing, same thing
This is actually another problem called subsidy and it is not specific to Sudan. Fuel subsidies were put in place as means to help the poor by keeping commodity prices low, but the ever increasing use of subsidized fuel for personal use creates a si…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
BlackBerry employees and natural economy
Mobile apps need not get such bad press. Admittedly majority of the apps can be termed as time wasters, but if wasting time is the objective, then they are handy. Games as low as 99 cents trumps games available on other handheld gaming only console …

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
The welfare state of the 20th century is gone
Haha I am the only one seeing here the irony of a king bemoaning the welfare state? What's the emoticon for a belly laugh?

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
How lenses are made
The first picture posted here from Sigma factory tour deflated my consumerist ego. Second picture restored my vanity :-) Nice videos.

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
BlackBerry employees and natural economy
Adieu BlackBerry. I will miss the keyboard, mail and encryption (only to the point of not needing a VPN).. Pure smartphone hardware manufacturers (even though RIM was not one) will be increasingly capable of failures and most will fail because to…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Syria: Everything has a reason
Sorry I jumped the gun and now run the risk of dragging others to post OT. Please delete my earlier post.

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Syria: Everything has a reason
I do not know why it has not happened before. I am watching a Russian HD news channel in English that sound like a proper English language channel. I forgot the channel name. May be RT. Arabs tried it with Al Zazeera. Next will be a cutting edge Chi…

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How soon they will stop?
I believe a change of topic name for this thread is in order. :-)

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Microsoft bought Nokia
In my opinion Nokia lost the game long back with symbian OS. It was good initially for the phone market. It was not the OS for the smart phone market. When Nokia realized the mistake, they tried to correct mistake by going to the strongest OS in t…

Comment by ppcroft September 2013 permalink
Decline of Apple and rise (again) of Google
Actually this is may be off topic now. But still the point regarding Ubuntu phone is; if they collected 32 million dollars whether it would have floated the idea. I seriously doubt it. On the other had may be collectively we saved 12. 8 million goin…

Comment by ppcroft August 2013 permalink
Decline of Apple and rise (again) of Google
Actually there are a lot of people who will not know if they miss their computer if they can access mail and social networking sites:-)

Comment by ppcroft August 2013 permalink
Steve Ballmer stepping down
@goanna Thanks for those charts. Assuming they are true, some random thoughts: Finally Linux and it derivatives rule the world? I don't know which is more evil. A paid for monopoly or an unpaid one. I see Linux in its true form getting o…

Comment by ppcroft August 2013 permalink
Cameras sales, including June reports
Makes me wonder on the wisdom of buying into m4/3 lenses...

Comment by ppcroft August 2013 permalink
Distributed Flight Array
It is so exciting to see imagination flying, literally...

Comment by ppcroft August 2013 permalink
Youtube dictionary
To be honest, I do not think metadata is the future of data management. It will be driven by user behavior and feedback. In the case of YouTube videos, I am sure the video hopping by users and auto suggestion algorithms will be more capable than a…

Comment by ppcroft July 2013 permalink
Fast Zoom w/ AF Primarily for Stills?
Just to point out...Olympus lenses will not have OIS and they may matter if your camera body is Panasonic. Some Panny lenses do not have OIS as well. Especially at tele range, OIS will be really useful, more so for stills.

Comment by ppcroft July 2013 permalink
How soon they will stop?
iPhone and BlackBerry used to put the emphasize on usability of the phone, even with single hand. BB was a pleasure to type and iPhone was such a pleasure to use. Samsung came with bigger screen which at least ran contrary to iPhone design cons…

Comment by ppcroft July 2013 permalink
Germany: Back to the future
@DrDave >And the answer is of course that solar power is free energy, no one will make money on it. Actually there is already a budding economy around Solar Energy. Sunlight is free but harnessing it can be a profitable venture.

Comment by ppcroft June 2013 permalink
Germany: Back to the future
So now there is a case for rest of the countries to slap Germany with a carbon tax? Tit for tat :-)

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